Państwo i Społeczeństwo / State and Society

Prof. Rodrigo Fidel Rodríguez Borges

Faculty of Information Sciences, University of La Laguna, Spain

Rodrigo Fidel Rodríguez Borges is a professor and researcher in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain, where he teaches in journalism programmes as well as in various master’s and postgraduate programmes.

He holds a PhD in Information Sciences, with a doctoral thesis entitled News Production on the Radio, and a PhD in Philosophy, with a thesis entitled Immigration, News Discourse, and Journalistic Ethics in the Canary Islands Press.

He has completed research stays at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Institute for Democratic Governance — Globernance in the Basque Country, and the University of Turin in Italy.

For two decades, his main research line has focused on the ethical and deontological analysis of the immigration phenomenon in Spain and its journalistic coverage. In this field, he has published numerous articles, books and conference contributions.

He is the author of the book The Discourse of Fear: Immigration and the Press on the Southern Border of the European Union, which examines Spanish newspapers during the so-called “cayuco crisis” of 2006.

He is currently part of the research team developing the project Vulnerability, Precariousness and Social Gaps. Towards a Redefinition of Fundamental Rights?, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the State Research Agency.